Brock and Anna moved their family of five out of the suburbs to experience life off-grid. Now they live in a cabin in the ...

"Our cabin is so energy-efficient we only need 1.5 kilowatt-hours of energy per day." ...

A person living off-grid turned used cabinets into a finished cabin kitchen with concrete counters and under-cabinet lighting ...

WHOI Senior Scientist Dr. Houshuo Jiang stands beside a high-speed microscale imaging system he developed and used to observe the feeding behavior of oyster larvae. A new WHOI-developed tool for ...

BERLIN, Oct 1 (Reuters) - Germany's energy regulator on Thursday issued new rules allowing electric vehicle owners to use car batteries to ‌power their homes or feed electricity back into the grid, a ...

HUNTERSVILLE, N.C. — Charlotte Water opened a new solar facility on 10 acres of utility property on Jim Kidd Road in Huntersville. The system generates enough power to supply electricity to roughly ...

Gravity-fed water filter systems have become popular among households looking for cleaner-tasting tap water that is mostly chlorine-free and serves as a reliable backup during power outages or ...

Editor’s Note: The video above is KXAN’s coverage on Sept., 14, 2026. AUSTIN (KXAN) — Gov. Greg Abbott on Thursday directed the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, or TCEQ, to halt permitting ...

Gavin Newsom signed a package of bills requiring AI data centers to pay for upgrades to the local energy grid. Gavin Newsom signed a package of bills requiring AI ...

For most of Australian history, “going off-grid” meant living somewhere the main electricity network did not reach. Isolated communities and remote farming properties have long relied on stand-alone ...

Eastern oyster larvae are only 100–300 micrometers long, but their dense calcium carbonate shells make them substantially heavier than the surrounding seawater. A new study led by the Woods Hole ...

Digging a hole for a buried water tank turned into something much bigger for one off-grid family: the discovery of a spring that could refill the system without relying on a drilled well or pump power ...